Owen B. Robinson

Owen Boris Robinson (2 April 1819-14 June 1888) was a member of the United States' delegation to Japan at the 1853 Kanagawa Convention under Commodore Matthew Perry.

Biography
Owen Boris Robinson was born on 2 April 1819 in Concord, New Hampshire to a middle-class family, and he was commissioned as a Captain during the Mexican-American War, serving with the US Marine Corps. Robinson was sent to Japan under Matthew Perry in 1853 to represent the USA at the Convention of Kanagawa, and he helped in negotiating a trade agreement with the Tokugawa Shogunate.